This little park was used for grazing sheep until September 2016, so all we did was plant a few trees there. Now the sheep have gone and Waipa District Council is opening it up for the public to use. Payne Park Cambridge adjoins the Resthaven retirement village and is a useful adjunct to their land. Some of it has been planted in daffodils, and those the sheep left have multiplied, though they're a bit scrappy at the moment. Payne Park Cambridge offers two good displays One is inside the roadside fence and one is outside it, by Hamilton Road.

Arbor Day 1998 marked the planting of daffodils around the town. With support from Council and Tree Trust volunteers a number of areas were planted out around town at this time. Hamilton Road on the main approach to Cambridge and the eastern approaches to the town by the Karapiro Stream Bridge were the major areas. Payne Park Cambridge was included in the Hamilton Road plantings, and more bulbs have been added from time to time

The park goes down to the path that winds down to the riverside shared path, Te Awa river trail. Another part of it that we began planting in October 2025 is on a paddock above the facility used by Riding for the Disabled.